Ability to change wildcard permission dot (.) to colon (:)

[doraemonxxx]

Hello there, is there any way to change the dot (.) into a colon (:) when using wildcard permission?

for example
user has the permission of admin:*

user can access all related admin permission even like
admin:list
admin:create
admin:save

even though users don't have these permissions. I would like to use the colon because some requirements in my task.

Thank you!
Cheers !🍻

[doraemonxxx]

after digging some files and code, the delimiter variable can be found in WildcardPermission.php but I don't know how to change PART_DELIMITER into a colon (:)

[erikn69]

you could overwrite hasWildcardPermission with your custom WildcardPermission class

laravel-permission/src/Traits/HasPermissions.php

Lines 163 to 192 in 96466b0

	protected function hasWildcardPermission($permission, $guardName = null): bool
	{
	$guardName = $guardName ?? $this->getDefaultGuardName();
	if (is_int($permission)) {
	$permission = $this->getPermissionClass()->findById($permission, $guardName);
	}
	if ($permission instanceof Permission) {
	$permission = $permission->name;
	}
	if (! is_string($permission)) {
	throw WildcardPermissionInvalidArgument::create();
	}
	foreach ($this->getAllPermissions() as $userPermission) {
	if ($guardName !== $userPermission->guard_name) {
	continue;
	}
	$userPermission = new WildcardPermission($userPermission->name);
	if ($userPermission->implies($permission)) {
	return true;
	}
	}
	return false;
	}

[doraemonxxx]

so I will create a new model that extends spatie model and then overwrite the hasWildcardPermission method?

[erikn69]

No, you did write

user has the permission of admin:*

Only overwrite on user

[doraemonxxx]

No, you did write

user has the permission of admin:*

Only overwrite on user

I will use the HasPermissions trait in the User model and then overwrite the hasWildcardPermission ? correct ?

for example:
`use Spatie\Permission\Traits\HasRoles;
use Spatie\Permission\Traits\HasPermissions;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
use HasRoles, HasPermissions;
}

protected function hasWildcardPermission($permission, $guardName = null): bool{
//overwrite the method.
}`

thanks!

[erikn69]

hasRoles already use hasPermissions

class User extends Authenticatable {
    use HasRoles;

    protected function hasWildcardPermission($permission, $guardName = null): bool{
        //overwrite the method with the custom wilcard class
    }
}

[adesege]

You can now replace WildcardPermission class in permission.php config.

Add permission.wildcard_permission property to your config file. The value will be a reference to your new WildcardPermission class.

Then do:

class WildcardPermission extends \Spatie\Permission\WildcardPermission
{
    public const PART_DELIMITER = ':';
}

Much cleaner than overriding hasWildcardPermission

[drbyte]

Thanks for the reminder. I've added this to the (upcoming v6, to be released soon) config file for easy reference.